#760: The State Is Farming You with NVK

Re:other nodes and making news, you're clearly not watching Eric Voskuil on Twitter. Libbitcoin 4 just did IBD in 14 minutes on a consumer connection (with assumevalid height of 950k) and 55 min for full validation. Older than Knots, and older than Core being called, well, Core. They slept for a good few years but are waking up with a vengeance.

Thanks for removing the friction from consuming Mises.

This is sweet, thanks for covering this. Been getting excited listening to @npub1v25jqj332… talk about Stratum v2 for a while now. Nice to see it in action.

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The cloak and dagger shit with Switck is heating up. People were already looking for a reason for this to be inside. Still not totally convinced but it looks sketchy as fuck. Never been more glad I had fun playing dice games with my bitcoin.

Boston Bitdevs is coming up on July 30 at MIT Building 4. Be sure to RSVP through bostonbitdevs.org (or with the link if David wants to put it in notes). https://app.evento.so/e/evt_3M48gmwDKdbzNc63 Come with questions!

One of the best WBD's yet. Dines' coverage of the Eurodollar mechanics here and the shift that happened with LIBOR to SOFR is something far too few people are talking about (Luongo notwithstanding).

Welcome back! Your break sounds like it was good. Missed your updates.

Your analogy is odd given that the twentyfirst amendment struck the 18th amendment from the constitution... The issue with 110 is that it was ineffective and targeting an issue that barely qualifies as one. 4 MB is 4 MB.

The point of airgapping isn't that QR'sbor SD cards are inherently more secure than USB or Bluetooth. It's that the amount of data is far more limited and easier to audit with lower tech methods. If you ask me floppy disks would be even better, as SD cards have firmware that could be an attack vector. But floppies are prohibitively hard to implement in 2026.

'Anything is safer than a coldcard' is not entirely accurate, especially if you're one of the fence cases. Malware hot wallets are having a field day. Saw one user lost 6.07 BTC on mobile 'wasabi' wallet which of course was fake.

Some of the best presentation of the issue I've encountered. Education not recommendations. The multisig evangelists are dangerous, and the guy who hosts the exchange is telling us to self custody. Man of the People @npub1cn4t4cd78… .

It turns out Leopold was NOT the biggest story of the day @npub1ahe2832lq… .

Guy with half a brain still listening reporting in 😂

I'm thinking the four year cycle is not as there as some have said. Stephen Perrenod has some great writings and math to go with it on some harmonics describing oscillations around the power law trend that seem to make more sense when thinking about fundamental factors. And it follows log time, with the last peak in 2017 and the next in 2027. There are sub harmonics, hence oscillations in between. The fun thing is, it captures the 2011 run up too...

So glad we finally got some weigh in here on the silliness that is 110. And yea, probably was a low blow last time I asked you about this topic on zoom Natalie...

Someone's out to capture Bitcoin all right. It's the ones who are running thebonly implementation and mining pool that supports this dumbass fork. They're just a lot more retarded than even Bcashers, with a single percent of blocks in any signalling period so far with only 2 to go. Most don't know enough about Bitcoin to realize how cooked they are though. And the ones who do are too sour to do anything about it. Have fun storming the castle.

I gotta say Rustin, I'm pretty disappointed in the portrayal of spam being about data space. That is hard capped at 4 MB/block. Being opposed to using that space is to be opposed to Bitcoin being used. Spam has other issues, sure. But the size on nodes is Simply noise.

Just gonna point out as a non-MSTR lover that $82.50 with 11.50 in annual dividends is a 13.94% yield. So when you say STRC hasn't done well but SATA has it's a bit weird as they're trading for the same yield...

Linked identities on Nostr...interesting thought. Wonder if we can reuse some of the BIP-85 math for that. The downside to that is, BIP-85 only links to a master private key. As far as I'm aware there's no way the various xpubs can be seen to be related by anyone else. Though, I suppose if we share that master public nostr key (heck maybe it's your npub now and the agents get child keys). Worth exploration anyway.

I get they're a sponsor @npub1h8nk2346q… but the idea of a nationstate holding their bitcoin on a Bitbox is comical. They could use a few...or, they could do the much more likely thing of a much more solid system like the Glacier protocol, perhaps expanded with a variety of spending paths.

'You can just buy Bitcoin and ignore it.' Except you can't. Sure, your Bitcoin won't be debased. But the productive capacity of humanity is an engine that right now is running on fiat. The fuel you put in an engine determines its output. And Bitcoin's purchasing power is a finite value that grows because humans usually produce more over time. If fiat debt makes the humans produce less, the Bitcoin will stagnate too. Buying Bitcoin and doing nothing just gives you a first class ticket on the Titanic. To really fix the issue we need to change the fuel in the engine. Sorry for the mixed metaphors but hope the point is made.

Nice to hear another measured take. Again, hats off to you Knut for your willingness to have an open and respectful forum for candid debate.

Obligatory flack for not hating Litecoin in the past. But this podcast idea thing just might work!

Finally after all the orange ties and BLV'ers we got some real Bitcoiners on the show again. Fuck the suits, fuck the scammers, stack real sats.

Hearing a lot about how this will work because everyone is dumber than Mechanic. Yawn. Also don't think we missed that he said he wishes he had unilateral power. Have fun playing with your BLV's.

Tether Gold (XAUt) seems like it'd be a 100% backed money certificate for gold. Same with the pre-bitcoin e-gold systems.

https://knotslies.com/ The CSAM angle is so fucking tired. BIP110 does NOT stop people from uploading images on chain. As the picture of Luke crying in a BIP110 compliant tx clearly exhibits. Think of the children, a piece of rhetoric we've all heard before...

You can sell a stock on the date of record and get the dividend. Sales settle the next day so you hold through the end of that date of record.